Hannah Montana Linux (HML) has become a conversation starter in the land of FOSS (aka FOSSLand?), and somehow, the year is 2026. The remaster, released by Noah Cagle, a developer/YouTuber, has taken us by surprise. This new avatar of HML is a combination of Debian Live tooling and the Calamares installer, with most of the…
Longtime AMD Linux graphics driver expert Marek Olšák, who joined Valve earlier this year and now focusing more on RADV rather than the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, has seen some of his latest work now merged for Mesa 26.2. Marek landed a big overhaul to the variable rate shading (VRS) code that in some cases can…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced today some more significant cuts at Microsoft / Xbox, with multiple studios being cut away but it’s not all bad news. The tough part first – Sharma said they will be reducing their numbers by “approximately 3,200 throughout FY27” which includes “approximately 1,600 role eliminations today”. Four studios will be…
postmarketOS has released the latest development update for its Linux-based mobile operating system, with the most notable change being the introduction of Plasma 6.7 in both Alpine Linux and postmarketOS, bringing the latest KDE improvements to supported devices. Another key update is the addition of usb-signaller, a new Rust-based tool now integrated into postmarketOS edge,…
It was discovered that GnuTLS had a timing side-channel when processingmalformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange. A remote attackercould possibly use this issue to recover sensitive information. Thisissue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-0553) Bing Shi discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled decoding certainDER-encoded certificates. A remote attacker could possibly use thisissue to cause GnuTLS to consume…
Peter Boy came to Fedora documentation the way many contributors do, by seeing a gap and deciding to fill it. As a researcher, writing is his daily work. When he looked at how he could meaningfully contribute to Fedora, documentation was the obvious answer. He started with Fedora Core 1, stepped away, and returned in…
Every wondered what famed FOSS image editor GIMP was like in 1996? Well, now you can find out. Developer balooii has packaged GIMP 0.54 into a Flatpak that runs on modern 64-bit Linux desktops with Wayland. It’s apparently the earliest version of the app with the source code still available to build. This is not…
Ticketbooth is a neat Linux app with one purpose: to help you keep track of the Movies and TV shows you want to watch. The few streaming services I use offer a “watchlist” feature. This lets me ‘bookmark’ content I come across for later viewing. That sort of helps, but most recommendations I encounter are…
223 Sarah’s Security Brief: I have spent the last three years building isolated penetration testing labs for clients who needed to simulate real network conditions without exposing production infrastructure. Privacy is not a single tool you install. It is a stack of decisions across three layers: your browser, your DNS, and your network. This guide…
DistroWatch.com: Ezarcher Last Update: 2026-06-07 18:28 UTC Ezarcher is a set of Arch-based live Linux distribution with a number of popular desktops, including Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE and Xfce. All desktop environments are provided in their default upstream state, without any customisations. The distribution can be installed to a hard disk using either…
